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From First Statesman, March 23, 1851 j ; 1
; i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHART PS A. SPRAGUi; Editor and Publisher i
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' Member of the Associated Press ; -
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
Steel on the Coast .
i One of the handicaps to industrial develop
ment on the Pacific coast has been the lack of
cheap steeL This , vital essential in jnSst manu
facturing enterprises has had to be shipped from
Chicago or Pittsburgh or the Mahoning valley or
Birmingham. As a result only such manufac
turing using steel
market or which
margin through pa
Death by. Accident 1
.With all the necessary, sacrifice in war due
to enemy action, it is most unfortunate that ac
cident takes a heavy toll as well. The costliest
accident to date is that in the loss of our LieUt.
Gen.' McNair by a bomb dropped from our own
airplanes. -This is admitted by Gen. Brereton,
commander of the air force operating in Nor-
mandy, who says that our planes operating in
the short run of helping ground troops, mistook
their targets and dropped their bombs too soon.
McNair was one of the casualties. ! . -A
transport plane operated by Pan-American
for the navy crashed soon after its takeoff from
a Pacific base and Rear Admiral Cecil and 18
other officers and men lost their lives. Recently
a transport plane carrying wounded across the
Atlantic failed to make. the crossing and pre
sumably is lost in the ocean. Then of course we
read every few days of deaths' by accident in
the crashing of planes or from other causes at
army posts and naval bases.:! - , 13
When men at war die they like to die facing
the enemy, exchanging blow for blow. But those
- who die by accident, preventable though it be,
are in truth war casualties, if or they are using
the lethal gear of war, taking unusual risks
in training or in transport, and devoting their
energies to the welding of victory. Nevertheless
losses by accidental causes are most regrettable
because of what seems ..like , an unnecessary
waste of talent. . , 1 . J
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Government Waste - i , !
Gen. Somervell promises an investigation of
the reports first published in a Vancouver, BC,
newspaper of burning and destruction of usable
goods on the Alcan highway. Included in the
list were such items in demand as sugar and
mattresses. While under the agreement I with
Canada American goods needed for the i con
struction job could be imported duty-free,! pro-,
vided they were not offered for sale, it would
seem the goods would be worth transport back
to the states, or could be turned over, f or J con
sideration, to the Canadian government instead
of being destroyed. jj ; j f: .if;:
as was catering to a local
had a considerable profit
ent control was able to sur
vive on this coast. Some motor companies had
assembly plants in California but the parts were
shipped from eastern factories. Some shipbuild
ing was carried on, but often some government
allowance for extra cost was sought.
Now the west has two steel plants, in conse
quence of the war. The greatest is the Geneva
plant in Utah, costing the government $192,
000,000, built and operated Jor the government
by Columbia Steel,: subsidiary to US Steel. An
other is the Fontana plant near Los Angeles,
operated by Henry j Kaiser. The serious question
which is giving concern to western industrialists
is whether the end of the war will see the end
of operation of these steel plants. Geneva is
operating only at one-third of its annual capa
city of 1,000,000 tons a year.
At a senate committee hearing in San Fran
cisco a WPB official testified that the future
operation of Geneva would be uneconomical
on the basis of present consumption of steel.
That has been the rub. Steelmakers of the east
would say there was no room on the coast for a
steel mill because j Consumption was too light;
but consumers were hobbled from expansion
here for lack of cheaper steel. However the sit
uation is not hopeless. Present steel consump
tion on the coast, largely in shipyards, is at the
rate, of 6,600,000 tons a year. Pre-war consump
tion was 2,400,000 tons, and postwar consump
tion ought to be around 3,000,000 tons. While
much of this may be in special steels like al
loys, etc., it would seem that both Geneva and
Fontana would have adequate outlets here, and
that export trade in the Pacific would supple
ment local demand. The problem becomes one
then of manufacturing cost, ueneva is a line Destruction is not confined to Canada. A Sa
plant, located close; to adequate supplies of iron - jem business man who visited Walla Walla re-
ore, coal and limestone.The freight rate to the cently reported seeing; a tanker-truckload of
coast is a handicap, however, because it is all-
rail,, while Birmingham steel moves on a wa
ter route. I ,
Benjamin B. Falrless, president of US JJteel,
is not at all optimistic in comments regarding
the Geneva plant, but he does say that it might
find a big market for tinplate. That is true, be
cause the west uses enormous quantities of tin
plate in the canning of fruits, vegetables and
fish..
The west's concern over steel is also felt
over aluminum. We have a partial aluminum in
dustry here, but lack plants at both ends of the
process: at the front end for producing alumina
and at the rear end for fabricating aluminum.
Likewise we have magnesium plants which
stop with the magnesium billets or pigs.
The west does not want to depend on govern
ment subsidy for operating these plants; but
since its future depends so much on provision
of an ample supply of metals,' western Indus
trialists should make every effort to provide
for their continued operation. The big eastern
companies are. well entrenched on the coast,
and they may interfere with such a consoli
dated effort, if it is their desire to destroy these
industries. Insome way leadership of business
men should be assembled representing the west
ern states who will work cooperatively for the
sane development of our industry and particu
larly for saving these: great metal plants for
production. I .
gasoline for the army air base dumped on the
ground because the tanks at the base were; full.
We have heard similar reports frorn the Boise
airbase. Rather than sell the gas to private in
dividuals or companies the war department
wastes the gas while the public struggles along
patriotically on A cards J i I ;
Enforcement in Santa Ana j
Down in Santa Ana, Calif., a Free Methodist
pastor who had a badge as special deputy sher
iff, staged a one-man raid on the county's hot
spots and confiscated 16 slot machines. When the
raid was completed, what did the sheriff do?
Why, he took his badge away , from; him! The
instance reminds one of the Ashland police who
arrested a man for breaking into the Elks' club
there and stealing the slot machine Which had
licked up his money the night before. In too
many communities the enforcement authorities
seem to be on the side of the slot machines in
stead of the law and the bilked public.
Hitler may not admit it, but German soldiers
as well as generals are learning that the jig is
up, that they have lost the war. When a thou
sands soldiers constituting the German garrison
at Rennes surrender to advancing Americans
without firing a shot, It shows that the German
army is becoming porous with defeatism. Hit
ler will have to blow up another firecracker
to get a fresh dramatic effect in the homeland.
Editorial Comment
- From Other Papers I
NORMAN NAMES
St. Louis' is a good place this year for a polit
ical pow-wow. With the Cards and Browns
leading their leagues, the politicians cant take
lessons from the baseball coaches, i ?
Interpreting
The War! News j
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON I . I
- ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR "ANALYST 1
Names of French towns once familiar to j Per
shing's AEF are racing through the war news now
as American armored power storms through Brit
tany toward the broad open valley of the Loire.
Brest, St Nazaire, Rennes, Nantes, Angers,: they
all stir memories of another 'war. The fighting men
from this side of the Atlantic passed that way to
victory over another generation 1 of Germans In
1917-18. Their sons and their sons sons are wheel
ing their ponderous war chariots -over the same
road now against all -but negligible enemy resis
tance. - r - "-
It was up the Loire valley from Brest and St
Nazaire that Pershing's men moved to reach the
(FUIHR5R CAM j J g .4;
Eclipse - 'hi 1 : " :rV - -'j:";'?'' ; ;': ' ' 'S' - '-X. '
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The Literary Mews Behind the News
GUItlOPOSt -J By PAULMALLON f !
WITH THE AEF IN ITALY,
July. 24 -(Delayed)-C)-The boy
" who was going to die woke up
in the middle; of the night and
called the nurse. He always did
and she always came.' His spinal
cord was so Injured that life for
him was a matter of days or
weeks at thej very most We
wondered if he knew. - ' .
" !Excepttwhen the" 1 pain ;- was
worst he never complained, nev-.
er talked much In the daytime.
But at night i when the - others
were asleep .he and the pretty
nurse would carry on a whis
pered conversation, their voices
sounding like the soft words Hit
lovers in the silence of the ward.
She knew, and said she often
wondered If hie did.
That night there was a pause
in the conversation as 'she sat
beside his cot Most of it had
been too faint to be' heard but
his slow question came clearly
through the stillness: " '
"How old are you?"
If she Was startled 'she never
showed It' i :
"Thirty; two" she replied, and
she certainly didn't look it, even
in . the daylight "How i old are
you?" -
''Nineteen," he said, and then
" after a moment he added:
"That's, funny; I thought I was
older than you." - ,
"It Is funny," she answered
slowly, "I 'thought you 'were,
tOO." 1 . .
A few minutes later he drop
ped off Into the drugged, sleep
again and she! left the ward. A
few days later he died.
only chance. It's the hail, you
fools. Snipers cant , shoot
straight with hail' hitting them
In the. face. Come on.
""Well me and two other guys
went with him and blamed If he
wasn't right' j They shot at us
but couldn't bit us. We made it
through but the other three guys
who stayed there got killed that
night Ifs funny how things
work out"
Washington
B JOHN SELBY ! ! '
-LAKE SUPERIOR" by Grace .
Lee Nate (Bobbs-Merrill;
Up to the present the Ameri
can Lakes Series is holding up
as well as any similar; historical
'series now in I progress. Grace
Lee Nutefs "Lake Superior is a
really fine Job! of research and
organization, bout! a district
which has strangely been neglec
ted, and bow may be overdone. .
It may be overdone because Miss
Nute has opened up a hundred
or morej channels that may
prove attractive to writers,! once
the auctQrial Renter Of gravity
moves westward across the Hud
son riveij. j I j j
Anyway, Miss Nute has ex
plained Lake Superior) from the
days of the Indian to this spring.
Superior! is a misnomer, of
course, tithe French called t "le ,
lac superieur," which only means
"upper lake." 3y chance, j Miss
Nute points out Superior was
truly a superior lake in the Eng
lish sense as well. It is not on
ly the largest of the Great Lakes;
it is the inost dangerous, the' most
remote, the least well explored
and the' mostf like an ocean.
There iijno space here even to
outline the complicated histori
cal background through which
the Lake was j tossed back and
forth among the French the
British and later the Americans.
Miss Nute has hot accepted! any
thing lazily, but has gone! to
sources for the! entire Story And
she has been very clever at dig
ging uphold records, particular
ly diaries j perhaps because
she is curator of manuscripts for
the Minesota State Historical so
ciety and professor pf history at
Hamline: university. j j
She has beei very fair, and
frank about the exploration and
similar adventures of the various
missionaries, and her refusal to
accept as. hero any old buzzard
in a dirty shirt and a pediculous
beard is: rather refreshing. For
me, the Inost interesting part of
her story was jthe modern i part
beginning with thej exploitation
' of Superior's 'ore resources, and
containing the Story of jthe astpn-
. ishing development of lake trans
portation down to I date. There.
. was even some newa irj this! diirf
sion not many readers know
how the newt MacArthurj lock
or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 imposjtion, was wholly.fictitious.
Treasury Secretary .Morgenthau Some weights - of hogs have
has sent flocks of i revenue , been sold at sacrifice prices, and,
agents into the farm regions to in many cases, farmers today are
taxes, fw
mak
check
without
ing any public
mention of the
fact an un
seemly thing
around election
time. -
I have never
been able to
understand Mr.
. . A 1 t
jorgenm u P,UI Mallon
philosophy on tax collections or
the timing of the calls of his
agents. .
Several excellent objective po
litical reporters, off duty, made
a farm to farm tour of several
farming sections lately for per
sonal reasons, and came back
with the report that it is more
republican today than four years
ago. 1
Even the dropping of Vice
President Wallace is supposed
to have cut two ways out there.
While Wallace had identified
himself almost! entirely during
his vice presidential term with
coddling the left wing elements
and running international er
rands for Mr.s Roosevelt and his
old , AAA policies were distinct
ly unpopular, ; he had many
friends . remaining apparently . ppare without compiete book
out inrougu uiai rcgiuu, per--
- cutting down on their hog pro
duction, solely because of their
experiences with the government
management If meat demand,
keeps up, the supply may be
scarce next spring.
And another thing: the far
mer sees the new deal still
maintaining its AAA personnel
throughout the country. In many
county seats, these 'government
employes, who formerly wrote
checks for the farmers, have lit
tle or nothing to do However,
the man on the trtictor has not
noticed that anything has been
done about transferring these
government employes to places
where they might be useful.
One wise old farm senator has
looked back into the records and
says no president has ever been
. elected in this country without
the farm vote.
- Yet here is Mr. Morgenthau
chasing the farmers on their
income taxes. The taxpayer In
the city finds his simple sala-
'ified return so involved as to be
practically beyond average
comprehension. The farmer's
returns are more complex to
"It was a hail storm that saved
my life said; the sergeant who
had been: brought in with a mi
nor mortar wound.
"Oh, I got this later, but the
time I'm talking about was 'way
back at Cassino. Six of us were
up on patrol and we got cut off.
by a bunch of snipers and ma
chine gun pistol boys."
"So we dived into this old
beaten up building and there sat
this soldier. He'd come up. on
solitary patrol. We'd never seen
him before. Every time we stuck
our heads out to try to get back
to our -lines they'd really cut
loose and we knew if we waited
until night they'd send a patrol
over to clean us out It looked
bad. j
"All of a sudden it started
hailing, been raining a little all
afternoon. We just sat there but
this soldier jumped up and said
Let's go.' We just looked at him
like he was crazy. He got to the
door , and turned around Look
he says, This is probably our
sonal friends, presumably, of his
farm journaling days.
The rest of the farmers ob
jection to the administration is
red tape. They; also think their
prices have been held down
while labor was permitted to
gain. - j
As an example, the glut of
hogs became such that the
stockyards made the farmers
get permits before sales. But the
day the permit restriction was
lifted, prices went up 35 cents a
hundred. This made them think
the claim of an overloaded sup
ply, as an excuse for the permit
was rushed through at Sault Ste.
Marie. I . . -Perhaps
"Lake Superior"
should be a must in American
history classes for a while.
Marne, the Meuse and ultimately the Rhine. The
. . , , graves of thousands who fell then lie ahead, still - MrpiX!? VrifTlVi0
Somewhere in Normandy. General Sir Bernard .i.,i1mi,ijI1Uui1i xilJC XVJUlll
leans on. And Iher are anwrin the rail, .hoiil. ' s
that gave his family its name. Among the Norman
nobles whom William the Congueror bribed or
browbeat into going with him on his raid on Eng-
land "was one Roger who, to distinguish him from
other Rogers, was called Roger of Montgomery,
from the village of which he was lord. Out of the
loot in England, William rewarded Roger with rthe-
earldom of Shrewsbury. The English Montgomery
later acquired lands in Scotland and distinguished
themselves in the Scottish wars. -against the de
scendants of William... It -was -one of them, John
Montgomery, who personally captured Sir Henry
Percy (Harry Hotspur), Earl of ITorm'umberland,
at the battle of Otterbum, when, as. the ballad
tells: ' '
. The dead Douglas won the field,
- And,the dead Percy was carried jcaptive away.
The Percys of KoTthinnberland likewise 'derive
from the Norman village of Percy, Just -southwest
of St Lo. William of Percy nidmamed Algernon, '
was one of the stoutest of the Conqueror's follow-.
ers. It seems mosr illogical that Percy and Alger
non are now regarded 'as sissy names. Algernon
means in the told Norman Krench "With the Whis
kers," and tbi hairy Percy wasr a tough homhre
indeed. It (was because he was a. most formidable
fighter that William gave him lands in the rough-and-tumble
north, where for centuries - hia de
scendants were conspicuous in the wars ond brawls
of the Scottish border. Ever since the- conquest
to this day, someercy of Shis redoubtable family
has borne 'the name -Algernon.. . ; z , ,f. - 3'
Then there .are hereditary antagonists of the
Percys in the border wars, the ScottishDouglases,
who came .with the Conqueror -from the Norman
village of Douglas and one could so right on
, through a Ions list of famous Xriiish names, and
the Norman villages from which 'they came. San
Francisco Chronicle. .
leans on. And they are answering the call, shoul
der to shoulder again with British and Canadian
comrades as Americans stood in France in , that
other war; but in greater' numbers, with Immeas
urably greater striking power and at greater speed.
With American capture of Rennes, the crucial
communications hub in , Brittany; the fate of the
great ieninsula that thrusts westward into the At
lantic is sealed. , '. .4 I
An obvious first major objective of the allied in
cursion into France, once the bloody beaches of
Normandy had been left behind, has been gained. .
Juliennes, or now probably beyond it enroute to
its next goal, the fast-moving column which; took .
-the-city in its stride is already churning the dust-i
of the northern slopes of the Loire valley. The
streams it crosses now all flow Into j the Loire. .
.And. .up 'the Loire lies the great interior military
highway across France from west to east, the long
er hut more open road to Berlin.
There is no definite hint yet of just how the foe
hopes to meet the crisis fin France, nor of allied
preparations to exploit successes in Brittany that
have-obviously brought the whole Invasion opera-
. tion up to schedule. High allied staff spokesmen
visualized a change even before the fall of Rennes
'tit bringing the enemy to decisive action and com
lilete defeat in the Vire-Orne sector, j .;
, It may be to keep such important channel ports
.as Le Havre out of allied hands that the foe has so
concentrated his defense in the Ome sector. Or it
jmay be under Berlin orders to hold them to the bit
. ter -end to protect robot bomb launching centers
farther east behind the channel coast that Brittany
was risked and lost ?
'Whatever the reason,' the result has been allied -
.. success in expanding the front sufficiently to bring
the whole weight of General Montgomery's ever -increasing
21st army .group into action simultan-;
eously for the first time. f
IDEA" By Mossier
J . 9ffia .r. I AS :
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"Tat yourself in the ether feUow's shoes, Pep ... Hew weald YOU
. like to be cenVersIag with the woman yea intend to
. - " i audi have TOUR father yell, Teeamy, .
ceme right home and mow the lawnT T
keeping and considerable esti
mating. I suppose a revenuer who
knows' how it should have been
done t properly could collect
something more from practically
all farmers.
But what I cannot understand
is. why Mr. Morgenthau chose
this time to stir up more hor
nets in a political area where
he well knows they are buzzing
around just -waiting for some
place to alight
Watch for the administration
to lift ' from deep within a
pigeon-hole in the file room the
old guaranteed annual wage
theory as a new boon to labor.
It probably will be sprung In a
speech by New York Senator
Wagner or someone of his left
labor views.' Unless it contains
some fresh Hrimmings to make
it more, desirable and practical
to all labor, it is not apt to be
of much value. ,
' These two items of news
which have come to me today
show precisely what Is wrong
with this administration and apt
to be wrong with its campaign.
Mr. Morgenthau Is bearing , a
stick into the hornets nest and
his cohorts are carrying honey
to leftwing labor.
If I were running the demo
cratic campaign, I - would turn
ft around and send the tax
agents into the labor unions and
some honey to the farmers.
Sunburn Gives Postal
Clerk Day Off; Nylon
Thieves Miss Nothing
DALLAS, . Tex., Aug. S-(flV
A postoffice clerk had the answer-
when he - was handed ' a
card demanding an explanation
f or . his .absence of a day from
work.. . . V '.
"Sunburned so badly I could
n't wear my pants," he wrote on
a card.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. MV
Movie Actor Pat O'Brien told
the police today burglars broke
into his home and rifled six
cases of scotch, t clothing and
jewelry. But worst of all, he said
the thieves took -seven pairs of
Mrs. O'Brien's nylon hose.
(Continued tmm Page 1
this coast The house has a com
mittee oh postwar planning,
headed by Rep. William B. Col
mer of Mississippi, which is
working particularly on a meas-
- ure covering disposal of surplus
property. This bill would put up
a legal framework for the guid
ance of SWPA (surplus war
property administration, which is
now headed by William A. Clay
ton of Houston, Tex., working
under presidential appointment
When the congress really re
sumes work in September, as ex
pected, it will have a 'heavy grist
of work to doJ These questions
are of vital human importance,
to labor, to capital, to agriculture,
to the men in the service who.
have done the fighting, to the
consuming public. While legis
lation can do little more than
provide channels for the work
and activity of private citizens,
the right kind of legislation can
help out tremendously by pro
viding smooth instead of rough
channels, f The government has
dominated industry and trade
and pricing and employment so
long that it dare not just let mat
ters drop when the armistice is
signed. The job of transfer from
war to peace will tax our brains
and our pocketbooks, both for
governments and for individuals.
';":' Prime Minister Churchill voic
ed optimism respecting an early
victory, and while we dare not
let down In our efforts, at the
: same time we should be looking
. ahead with our law-making and
with our private planning to help
cushion the shocks that come as
ue war roachine grinds to a halt,
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON The smash
ing victories of the Russian army
are causing military authorities
In Washington to revise their
i ideas as to the probable end of
the war In Europe. Some ex
perts think the German army
may collapse as early as Septem
ber. -
It is no secret among Allied
military men that German Is in
.very bad shape, and that she is
virtually defeated sq far as any
hope of waging a successful mili
tary campaign Is concerned.
However, the German army is
expected to fight until the will to
resist is knocked out. of it and
some i conservative authorities
therefore are wary about Pre-'
dieting the end. But an increase
; in "peace feelers" may be ex
' pec ted from now on.
General Ho jlfingChin,; chief
of the Chinese general staff, and
minister of war in the .' Chiang
Kai-shek cabinet, believes the
current Jap offensive in central
China is part of the enemy's
long-range strategy to assure an
escape corridor for its forces in
the southwest Pacific.
According to the general, the
Japanese are attempting to cut
an' escape corridor from north
China, which they occupy, to
Canton," along the Canton-Peip-lng
railroad, which they can use
in the event their sea commuhi-
cations are cut ,
He points out that this strategy
Is the result of spectacular Amer
ican 'successes at sea and in the
air. Once American forces reach
the Philippines, Jap garrisons in
the Indies will be in an almost
hopeless position.
The. flying bomb has made it
1 highly essential, in the opinion of
many . informed persons, that
really effective machinery be set
up and maintained to prevent
another world war. s ' " '
Although the robots that are
being dropped over England are
discounted as of no real military
value, the plain truth is that this
new weapon Is something which
the future will have to reckon
.with.
It may not even dent British
morale, coming at a time when
Germany: is already virtually
beaten. But the future can
scarcely take a chance, informed
observers believe, on such an all
weather air force being unloosed,
suddenl yon helpless civilians.
The flying bomb, these observ
ers say, should be of particular
interest to the. United States, be
cause it has not merely narrowed
but has erased the oceans. A
barrage of 10-ton or larger ro
bots directed against Manhattan
b ydistant radio control is be
lieved to be a definite possibility
if there should be a World War
IIL
The belief is growing in mili
tary circles In Washington that
American and Allied forces will
be back in the Philippines much
sooner than previously expected.
Gen. Douglas Mc Arthur's
forces now are less than 900
miles from Mindanao in the
southwest Pacific and Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz and his pow
erful fleet are only 1,400 miles
away in the Marianas. " '
Thus development indicate
that .American and Filipino
forces may be fighting side by
side again in the Philippines,
probably weeks before the third
anniversary of the Jap sneak at
tack. - . - '.-. I: : .
OREGON CITY, Ore.-(-A
hen owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Maxwell took the wartime; pro
duction program seriously. !
For months the bird laid stand
ard sized .eggs. - Then it started
laying super eggs, 94 .inches
around lengthwise, and eight inch
es across. ::;' ': TwV-' ..''.-.j
After seven days of such pro
duction, possibly egged on by the
fact : her ' owners worked swing
shifts in a Kaiser' shipyard, the
hen died.
Stevens
j BIRTH STONES
Beautiful Birth Stones Set in
exquisite mountings. Some
' with small aide diamonds. ;
DUmends Reset
While : Yea , Walt
Credit If
Desired